Eric Johnston, President Eisenhower’s personal envoy to the Middle East on the American plan for the regional development of the Jordan River, has postponed his second trip to the Arab states and Israel from this month to March in order to give the states “more time” to consider the plan fully, a spokesman for his office announced this week-end.
The spokesman pictured Mr. Johnston as optimistic over the outcome of Ms mission. In the face of an Egyptian broadcast last week advising Mr. Johnston to stay at home, the spokesman said that Mr. Johnston “has every reason to believe he will be welcome in all the states he visited before.”
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